In the first movie's theatrical trailer, there's that great chorus track going throughout most of it. The only hint of it being in the full movie is during the main menu on the DVD, and there it's only 1/4 of as much of what's in the trailer.
If I remember this correctly ( it's been a long time since someone borrowed my Matrix 1 DVD and didn't bring it back... ) this song is The Eyes of Truth, by Enigma. It's on the soundtrack CD. Confirming, you can see complete music listings for all the trailers / movies / etc, at matrixbeats.
Huh, that was interesting. I might go and see it now.
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Well, when the company doesn't have to pay staff to maintian the drivers, they can lower their prices and offer better performance in an even lower price range while still maintaining profitability.
Sure, that's a good answer, but I doubt they're likely to just fire all their driver staff ( even if they do deserve it ) and turn the whole thing out in the open, right? At the very least, I can't see the windows driver being replaced with an open effort ( call it cultural resistance ), and Windows is where the money is. They also need a good driver at ship time - they can't wait around while some volunteers put one together. And lord help them if there's a bad bunch of open drivers due to inadequate testing / mistakes ( hell, we all make them ), and S3 couldn't help out their customers because they don't support the driver (!!) that would be a PR blow not soon recovered from.
What I'm trying to say is that out here in Linux/BSD land, our market share is so vanishingly small that I'd be surprised if they offer a binary driver + wrapper, ala NVidia. They're going to be busy enough copping a hell of a ride from the established players.
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Re:Future support? Driver updates?
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Remember the Kyro II? The chip used a unique tile-based rendering system
Actually, I think previous PowerVR chips before the Kyro II also had tile based rendering, but I could be wrong. This presentation on TBR discusses that it seems to be present in the Naomi arcade board and Sega Dreamcasts rendering pipelines, and I'm pretty sure the DC didn't have a Kyro inside, but some earlier PowerVR.
How many folks, would you estimate, would be willing to pay this 'freedom tax' of a lower performance card in exchange for access to driver internals? I'm genuinely curious, because I wouldn't have thought it would be anywhere near high enough for S3 to bother doing the paperwork, let alone even begin to weigh up IP ramifications.
It's the right thing.
Just as an aside, why is this "the right thing"? The right thing, according to the all-software-should-be-free ethos, sure, but S3 is a hardware company, and not only that, a hardware company with a majority user base installed in non-free computing environments.
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optional LED bleeding heart of Christ for Catholic buyers.
Around where I live ( Newtown/Glebe ), you can buy things much like this in the discount shops. Prints of the sacred heart, nativity, saints, etc, with either small LED's or fibre optic studded into them that twinkles. I thought they were fabulously tacky, but my GF won't let me put any in the house. Interestingly, these aren't a christmas special, they're there all year around, right next to the kinky batman statues.
P2P systems that rely on the users manually bootstrapping to a second connection aren't going to catch on until a well known list of stable master servers is provided. This is too hard for the average p2p user when compared to the almost zero intellectual cost of entry to something like the fasttrack network. I remember edonkey2000 having some teething problems in this regard also.
I think there is an explanation that cuts it. Neo had a link to the matrix, even when he was in the real world.
But this doesn't explain it, and that's grandparents point:-( What is different in Neos "meat" that gives him this amazing wireless link to an artificial construct? That's a question I really would have loved to see answered.
It really amazes me just how much longevity the CCC has displayed, despite having gotten mixed up in scrambles that would have totally taken apart anyone less hardy. From concerns that one of their members might have been bumpedoff, working for the KGB, breaking into NASA... and somehow still finding time to run the Blinkenlights and the congress every year.
I know I would have cashed my chips and left a group like that a long time ago. Hats off guys, how do you do it?
If you really want it that bad, you'll take the wallet hit and buy it. If you can mentally afford to keep putting it off another year, I guess you don't really want / need it that badly after all.
Sometimes its worth buying stuff you can use, even though you know it'll get a price cut / speed bump sometime soon *pats powerbook*. You can't hedge forever.
Nethack! Nethack is a false god graven to draw the faithful away from the true bloodline of righteous Roguelike games, currently incarnated in the form of Glorious Angband and its descendants.
For an office ( a patient, nerdy office, perhaps ), I recommend one of the multiplayer 'Bands - there's always Mangband ( but there are some rumours the devs are gits ), and there is a multiplayer version of ToME ( my favourite Angband flavour ) called ToME-NET or something similar. Give them a go!
From summary: FEMA [emergency] radio systems such as FNARS.
Actually, considering the amount of FUD that flies around about FEMA ( see parent ), I'm surprised some joker over there didn't rename the radio system FNORD.
The constitution does not prohibit stupid presidents from sending the military to fight stupid wars.
I am not overly familiar with the US Constitution ( after all, I live somewhere else ), but don't you think that Article I, Section 8, subsection 11 * reserves this power to the Congress?
* In the list of legislative powers reserved to the congress as mentioned in Section 1: "To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;"
That same kind of heat that Linux put on apple and microsoft that is going to be its own undoing. You show up the big boys and they place the bar beyond your reach.
It might be bad for Open Source, but its definitely good for the consumer. I'm all for Apple and Microsoft raising the bar - I use their products every day. If that means I have to hack together the occasional bit of 'user experience' on Linux or whatever, sounds like an excellent deal.
Your argument basically says, "Don't be good at anything, or the big guys will turn around and be even better." I think that sounds like a very desirable state of affairs instead of just persisting in mediocrity.
And Australia even supported the US in the Iraq war. What has the US gained but some bad publicity? Maybe they should make him wait a while as a penalty, but sell the poor guy some fuel. Isn't that just the decent thing to do?
As an Australian, I fully support the US Governments stance to keep him down there, and fulsomely thank them for providing free accomodation and an offer of a free ride home.
Christ, refueling him would be like selling a clip of ammunition to someone that almost blew off their leg five minutes earlier. Deviating from flight plan, flying with insufficient gas, and not having the decency to inform McMurdo "By the way, you're my contingency plan." in my eyes disqualifies this gentleman from any right to fly a plane. He. Fails. It.
This is a good thread, and I've enjoyed your posts, but I'll just put out some anecdotal evidence the other way that I do frequently purchase CDs/Music DVDs that I have been sent tracks from by friends to try out. I suspect, however, that I'm in a tiny minority there.
I wish there was some way to give money directly to the artist in addition to what was paid for the media you heard them on. There are times when I've enjoyed an album so much, I've felt a desire to provide some kind of incentive to continue entertaining me, but buying multiple copies of the compact disk is useless because a) the artist won't realise what's been done b) the money mostly goes to the wrong people anyway. I want to buy Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlain a pizza. I want to send a six pack of steinlager to The Muffs. I'd like to buy a box of Prozac for E. As the distribution model currently stands, the closest I'd be able to possibly get to this kind of fan/artist interaction would be throwing them on stage during a concert.
Music used to be great fun. I think we had a good relationship with the content providers at one point. And I also have a sneaking suspicion that somehow we brought this whole mess on ourselves... oh well.
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If I remember this correctly ( it's been a long time since someone borrowed my Matrix 1 DVD and didn't bring it back... ) this song is The Eyes of Truth, by Enigma. It's on the soundtrack CD. Confirming, you can see complete music listings for all the trailers / movies / etc, at matrixbeats.
YLFIHuh, that was interesting. I might go and see it now.
YLFISure, that's a good answer, but I doubt they're likely to just fire all their driver staff ( even if they do deserve it ) and turn the whole thing out in the open, right? At the very least, I can't see the windows driver being replaced with an open effort ( call it cultural resistance ), and Windows is where the money is. They also need a good driver at ship time - they can't wait around while some volunteers put one together. And lord help them if there's a bad bunch of open drivers due to inadequate testing / mistakes ( hell, we all make them ), and S3 couldn't help out their customers because they don't support the driver (!!) that would be a PR blow not soon recovered from.
What I'm trying to say is that out here in Linux/BSD land, our market share is so vanishingly small that I'd be surprised if they offer a binary driver + wrapper, ala NVidia. They're going to be busy enough copping a hell of a ride from the established players.
YLFIActually, I think previous PowerVR chips before the Kyro II also had tile based rendering, but I could be wrong. This presentation on TBR discusses that it seems to be present in the Naomi arcade board and Sega Dreamcasts rendering pipelines, and I'm pretty sure the DC didn't have a Kyro inside, but some earlier PowerVR.
Bitch about the drivers though, I agree.
YLFIHow many folks, would you estimate, would be willing to pay this 'freedom tax' of a lower performance card in exchange for access to driver internals? I'm genuinely curious, because I wouldn't have thought it would be anywhere near high enough for S3 to bother doing the paperwork, let alone even begin to weigh up IP ramifications.
It's the right thing.
Just as an aside, why is this "the right thing"? The right thing, according to the all-software-should-be-free ethos, sure, but S3 is a hardware company, and not only that, a hardware company with a majority user base installed in non-free computing environments.
YLFIAround where I live ( Newtown/Glebe ), you can buy things much like this in the discount shops. Prints of the sacred heart, nativity, saints, etc, with either small LED's or fibre optic studded into them that twinkles. I thought they were fabulously tacky, but my GF won't let me put any in the house. Interestingly, these aren't a christmas special, they're there all year around, right next to the kinky batman statues.
YLFIP2P systems that rely on the users manually bootstrapping to a second connection aren't going to catch on until a well known list of stable master servers is provided. This is too hard for the average p2p user when compared to the almost zero intellectual cost of entry to something like the fasttrack network. I remember edonkey2000 having some teething problems in this regard also.
YLFIBut this doesn't explain it, and that's grandparents point :-( What is different in Neos "meat" that gives him this amazing wireless link to an artificial construct? That's a question I really would have loved to see answered.
YLFIYeah, I think you should definitely switch to decaf.
YLFI
Ghandi-O's? [1] Krsna Oats? Count Vethathiri-Maharishi-ocula?
The possibilities are endless!
YLFI[1] They're Mahatmalicious!
Hmm, interesting! Is this a constitutional amendment, or just a normal law?
P.S. Have the mods gone? :-P
YLFIIt really amazes me just how much longevity the CCC has displayed, despite having gotten mixed up in scrambles that would have totally taken apart anyone less hardy. From concerns that one of their members might have been bumped off, working for the KGB, breaking into NASA... and somehow still finding time to run the Blinkenlights and the congress every year.
I know I would have cashed my chips and left a group like that a long time ago. Hats off guys, how do you do it?
YLFIIf you really want it that bad, you'll take the wallet hit and buy it. If you can mentally afford to keep putting it off another year, I guess you don't really want / need it that badly after all.
Sometimes its worth buying stuff you can use, even though you know it'll get a price cut / speed bump sometime soon *pats powerbook*. You can't hedge forever.
Nethack! Nethack is a false god graven to draw the faithful away from the true bloodline of righteous Roguelike games, currently incarnated in the form of Glorious Angband and its descendants.
For an office ( a patient, nerdy office, perhaps ), I recommend one of the multiplayer 'Bands - there's always Mangband ( but there are some rumours the devs are gits ), and there is a multiplayer version of ToME ( my favourite Angband flavour ) called ToME-NET or something similar. Give them a go!
YLFIActually, considering the amount of FUD that flies around about FEMA ( see parent ), I'm surprised some joker over there didn't rename the radio system FNORD.
YLFnordIHow about physically increasing the size of the chip? There's plenty of room left inside the case...
YLFIGoddamn this annoys me as well. I want to buy a computer case designed for a Piersons Puppeteer.
YLFIThe joy of tech is that you never realise you need something until it's put in front of you. I get this sensation everytime I go shopping.
An actual case in point for me would be WiFi. Couldn't care less until someone threw me a card, and now I couldn't live without it.
YLFII am not overly familiar with the US Constitution ( after all, I live somewhere else ), but don't you think that Article I, Section 8, subsection 11 * reserves this power to the Congress?
* In the list of legislative powers reserved to the congress as mentioned in Section 1: "To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;"
YLFIIt might be bad for Open Source, but its definitely good for the consumer. I'm all for Apple and Microsoft raising the bar - I use their products every day. If that means I have to hack together the occasional bit of 'user experience' on Linux or whatever, sounds like an excellent deal.
Your argument basically says, "Don't be good at anything, or the big guys will turn around and be even better." I think that sounds like a very desirable state of affairs instead of just persisting in mediocrity.
YLFISo throw them all in the brig. I don't see the problem.
YLFIAs an Australian, I fully support the US Governments stance to keep him down there, and fulsomely thank them for providing free accomodation and an offer of a free ride home.
Christ, refueling him would be like selling a clip of ammunition to someone that almost blew off their leg five minutes earlier. Deviating from flight plan, flying with insufficient gas, and not having the decency to inform McMurdo "By the way, you're my contingency plan." in my eyes disqualifies this gentleman from any right to fly a plane. He. Fails. It.
YLFIYou will please recall the town square burning of Komrade Glynda in 1953. Kids now days.
YLFINot all slopes are slippery. Variations on this little ditty have to constitute the most overused cliche on the internet today.
This is a good thread, and I've enjoyed your posts, but I'll just put out some anecdotal evidence the other way that I do frequently purchase CDs/Music DVDs that I have been sent tracks from by friends to try out. I suspect, however, that I'm in a tiny minority there.
I wish there was some way to give money directly to the artist in addition to what was paid for the media you heard them on. There are times when I've enjoyed an album so much, I've felt a desire to provide some kind of incentive to continue entertaining me, but buying multiple copies of the compact disk is useless because a) the artist won't realise what's been done b) the money mostly goes to the wrong people anyway. I want to buy Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlain a pizza. I want to send a six pack of steinlager to The Muffs. I'd like to buy a box of Prozac for E. As the distribution model currently stands, the closest I'd be able to possibly get to this kind of fan/artist interaction would be throwing them on stage during a concert.
Music used to be great fun. I think we had a good relationship with the content providers at one point. And I also have a sneaking suspicion that somehow we brought this whole mess on ourselves... oh well.
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